Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-28
THE REASON WHY
Southern California Goes
Ahead So Fast.
WHAT A SAN FRANCISCAN SAW
And Admired in Los Angeles, San
Diego, Etc.-Spirit and Enter
prise of Their People.


A d. K. reporter met to-day San
Franciscan who has just returned
from trip to Los Angeles and San
Diego. He is a gentleman who has
kept the run OF Southern California
matters for some time past and has
been frequent visitor to Boomland.
He was there four or five months ago,
and his latest trip was to verify GER
tain reports that had been brought to
him to the effect that there were signs
of a "let-up" in the boom, that busi-
ness seemed to be settling down to a
humdrum basis, and SO forth. He
vowed there were no signs of anything
of the kind. 1t was very interesting
to hear his description OF how busi-
ness is done down there, and the Re
ports readers will do well if they take
careful note of the difference between
the methods of the southern cities and
some others that might be mentioned.
GOING AHEAD.
He said: "Business is always lighter
in Los Angeles and San Diego in the
months of July and August than at
any other time. The weather is hot
and the Eastern visitors have not be-
gun their winter rush. But l found
far more business and hustle than l
expected. 1t is going right along
almost as if it were not the dull sea-
son. In fact, everything is rushing
down there. In Los Angeles, for ex-
ample, they have just awarded
a. contract to C. B. Williams and
Joseph Sheerer for $4,000 worth
of bituminous paving on the
main street. They do not pave
street there by laying down a block or
two annually. When something has
to be done they go ahead and do it,
and what they consider worth doing
at all they consider worth doing well.
For example, in the Council Cham
Der they are about to place magnifi-
cent mantel-piece. l really forget
how much it is to cost, but it is to cost
a good round snm. and will be fine
work of art. The Los Angelans.
BELIEVE IN THEIR CITY,
Are certain of its continuous progress,
and rightly argue that its public build
ings should give evidence of this faith
and correspond in the character of
their appointments with the rich and
community clustered
around them. The Title Insurance
Company is about to erect $4,000
building on $4,000 lot. 1t will be
fire proof and three stories high. OF
course, l cast no reflections on San
but l remember that one
or two of my old friends shook
their heads gravely when our Title
Insurance Company put up that
$4,000 or $4,000 building oppo-
site the New City Hall, and ventured
the opinion that that was going to
pretty considerable expense" An
other thing that indicates very well
the prevailing spirit in Los Angeles is
the use of terra Gotta fire-proofng in
their buildings. You know that is
very much used in Eastern cities, and
80 Los Angeles uses it. Los Angeles
in fact has cut loose from all the old
California traditions and methods. 1t
is
NOT CALIFORNIAN
In its way of doing business, building
Or anything else, except, of course, its
glorious climate 1t looks like an
Eastern city. The beauty, the size,
the solidity of its buildings, strike a
San Franciscan with astonishment
Of course, we have many fine
here in San Fran
cisco, but people don't usually go
down to Los Angeles and expect to
find themselves gazing around upon a
second edition of Broadway, New
York. Terra Gotta fire-proofing costs
but it is handsome, reliable
and durable and metropolitan, and so
Los Angeles has got to have it, and
The insurance companies and builders
stand in together on the proposition.
In everything that goes to make a
city what city ought to be, the peo-
pie of Los Angeles have trick Of
in together. 1t seems to be
one for all and all for one down there.
Y ou may think me rather enthusiastic
about Los Angeles, and indeed l am.
like the style of the place and peo-
Pile. At Pasadena, a beautiful little
city, which is virtually a suburb of
Los Angeles, they are building
A 100000 OPERA HOUSE.
All over the city they are putting up
hotels, and the hotels are not specula-
tons, either. Every one of the pro-
prietors knows where its guests are
coming from, and the fear is not that
there will be fewer guests than rooms,
but lest there be not rooms enough.
Los Angeles will vote next month on a
to issue 81 900, 900 worth of
bonds to sewer the city, and it is a
foregone conclusion that the vote will
be in the affirmative. You may
that Colonel Waring was in
Los Angelesa few months ago map
ping ont scientific system of sewer
age for it. He came up to this city
after ward, but we considered that we
had no need Of his services. The Los
Angeles system will not be entirely
Warnings however. So determined
was the city that its sewers should be
as good as they could be made. and
80 anxious were they that no mistake
should occur that they sent
EAST FOR AN ENGINEER
And brought from Chicago a man
whose reputation is nearly equal to
Waring. He inspected the city and
without reference to Colonel Warnings
plan reported one of his own. The
new system will be a modification of
the two plans and will probably be
the most perfect in America to date.
The city will then be as
clean as it looks. 1t is now very pic
ture of prosperity, and business seems
to be on most solid basis; Building
is going on everywhere. The demand
for lum ber exceeds the supply, and 30
does the demand for labor. At San
Diego. when 1 was there there were
fifteen ships at the wharves unloading
with or lust unloaded of lumber. The